So I got my bluesky account like a month ago and it's definitely a more effective dopamine machine than Mastodon
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yarrriv
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Mostly quantum physics, urbanism, politics and nostalgia for Montreal.
I think it's mostly a cultural thing, in terms of features it's all the same (though they do have quote tweets over there)
lcamtuf 
Several years ago, I bought a decommissioned mil-spec radiation meter. It had a busted LCD, so I ended up reverse engineering the circuitry and replacing it.
Well, I accidentally grabbed a module with red backlight... and ended up with this sinister "we're all gonna die" vibe.
Every once in a while I'm reminded that NASA is still pretending we're going to send astronauts to the moon in less than 18 months and I softly chuckle to myself
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/29/china-moon-space-astronauts-lunar/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/29/china-moon-space-astronauts-lunar/
SwiftOnSecuritySwift: You can't handle the truth! Darling, we live in a world that looks like a nightmare dressed like a daydream with bridges, and those bridges have to be sung by souls with melodies. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater vocal register than you can possibly fathom!
Like a modern day Sisyphus (refilling the soda stream bottle as I go through two liters of water every day)
I've noticed recently the names of two Israeli organization where the English term is a transliteration of the Hebrew, but not of the Hebrew terms used in Israel:
- The Shin Bet (which in Hebrew we call shabak, the acronym shin bet kof read out loud)
- The Irgun (which in Hebrew we call etzel, again an acronym with the first letter standing for irgun)
I'm curious about this divergence!
So you're left with this cartoon of the AI... numerically simulating experiments? Which is nonsense, at least when it comes to quantum mechanics.
These are problems with exponentially large computational spaces, there are physical limits on computation that prevent you from numerically calculating the answers you need.
Physical sciences are primarily experimental endeavors. Theorists are there to provide tools and understanding, usually in retrospect, and their work is secondary to the people who actually work in the lab trying things out.
I say this as a *theoretical* physicist
I am interested to know if there are any physical scientists at all hanging out in the AI-alarmist spaces, as opposed to mathematicians and computers scientists, because these folks' view of science is just cartoonishly out of touch with how it works in reality